Database Van Broekhoven » Apolonia Maria Ammerlaan (1896-1968)

Day of marriage January 20, 1925

• The temperature on January 20, 1925 was between -0.4 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
  • May 14 » Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
  • May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
  • July 21 » Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.
  • July 25 » Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
  • November 5 » Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

Day of death January 31, 1968

• The temperature on January 31, 1968 was between 5.6 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
  • February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
  • March 18 » Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
  • June 11 » Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
  • September 15 » The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
  • October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1966 » Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator (b. 1908)
• 1969 » Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (b. 1882)